For years, some women who had been told that their breast cancer was relatively harmless have been unhappily surprised by a recurrence just a year or two after surgery.
Now, new research from MIT and the Whitehead Institute finds that their surgery may have had something to do with the spread -- but it’s not their doctors’ fault.
The body’s own mechanism for healing seems to have unleashed cancerous cells that had already traveled outside the breast, according to the study, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine.
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